In 2007, Hong Kong saw a remarkable budget surplus of more than US$77 billion with a 6.8 percent GDP growth rate.
It may be that their clothes are insufficiently remarkable or are surplus to our requirements.
In this way the surplus, and the remarkable opportunity it represents, are frittered away.
When Bill Clinton raised taxes on top incomes, conservatives predicted economic disaster; what actually followed was an economic boom and a remarkable swing from budget deficit to surplus.
Mr. Greenspan attributed the upward revisions in the surplus projections to the remarkable growth in labor productivity, the economic payoff of new information technologies.
Sustaining so big a surplus is all the more remarkable since Germany's main export market, the rest of the euro zone, has been so sickly; the surplus with other euro members has fallen from 4.5% of GDP in 2007 to 2.1% in 2013.
Of course; but part of the fun in Ashbery is finding how much narrative sense can be pieced together from these remarkable associative feats, in order to appreciate the surplus above and beyond the story they nearly tell.
Jumper built a half-a-million-dollar surplus before she left office, an accomplishment more remarkable since it took place in the days before tax-free cigarettes and casinos flooded the reservation with money.
Schäuble's response to my point, addressing the rest of the Eurogroup while avoiding my eyes, was remarkable: "The previous government has committed Greece to 4.5% primary surpluses.
That had a remarkable influence on the company's working capital, giving it about $146 million in surplus as reported today by DailyFinance.com.com
